Paul Maccready Quotes

#1. We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?

Paul MacCready

#2. Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.

Shantideva

#3. Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.

Jim Rash

#4. If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.

Epictetus

#5. The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.

Paul MacCready

#6. Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.

Paul MacCready

#7. American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

Carice Van Houten

#8. The problem is we don't understand the problem.

Paul MacCready

#9. I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells

Paul MacCready

#10. The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

Paul MacCready

#11. Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

Paul MacCready

#12. Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

Paul MacCready

#13. My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

Geraldine Brooks